Troy Taylor is going after the Worldwide Leader following his Stanford ouster. The former head coach of the Cardinal football team has filed a lawsuit against ESPN and reporter Xuan Thai, alleging that he was defamed in a story that preceded his firing in March by Stanford general manager Andrew Luck.

Troy Taylor, a former football coach for the Stanford Cardinal who went on to be fired by the university, has reportedly slapped ESPN with a defamation lawsuit after they put out a story regarding him allegedly bullying and belittling female staffers during his time at the college.